Once again, we’re reading a novel that focuses strongly on the topic of race. Kindred never held back when showing us the cruelty of slavery, and it seems that I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings isn’t going to hold back on anything either. Caged Bird may take place over a century after the events…
The Shack: Resisting our faith in the author
Even though The Shack fulfills the expectations of being a tragic, though heartwarming story, the way it goes about doing it almost makes you scratch your head and wonder why, why couldn’t the author have taken a much simpler approach in to how he told the story? Upon this blog, I will be analyzing the rhetoric…
Kindred: Adapting to another time
As we leave the “other” world of Coraline behind, we find ourselves being evermore on edge. In my last blog I was discussing the form and genre of Coraline and its diverges from the classic approach to horror. Now, since the story doesn’t involve walking into another reality, it almost feels like a step backward,…
Coraline: Seeing through the eyes of a child
For our most recent reading we’re still in the horror genre, and yet, there’s something different. In our last series of blogs we were discussing Slade House. Our last topic was the rhetoric of Slade House and who could the narrator, Norah, possibly be addressing throughout the novel. Now we’re in a whole different territory,…
Group Four 